Intel has confirmed Blu-ray HDCP encryption is cracked after
admitting a leaked master key is the real deal. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) copy protection
technology is designed to protect high-definition video content as it
travels across digital interfaces. Read the full artcicle. [The Register]
Another member of the hacking crew responsible for the $9.4m heist of RBS WorldPay is going to court in Russia, according to a local media report.
Microsoft patched a zero day vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler that was used by Stuxnet and says that cross vendor cooperation may be the silver lining to the Stuxnet attack.
Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked and pillaged. But where does the fault really lie?
A pair of security researchers have implemented an attack that exploits the way that ASP.NET Web applications handle encrypted session cookies, a weakness that could enable an attacker to hijack users’ online banking sessions and cause other severe problems in vulnerable applications. Experts say that the bug, which will be discussed in detail at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina this week, affects millions of Web applications.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to
$32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking
everything about the Internet from from its core routing system to its
security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing
and an increasingly mobile society. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked and pillaged. But where does the fault really lie? And is there a cure for the plague of online banking fraud?
Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked and pillaged. But where does the fault really lie? And is there a cure for the plague of online banking fraud?
HEI Hospitality, owner and operator of upscale hotels operating under
the Marriott, Sheraton, Westin and other monikers, has sent letters
informing some 3,400 customers that their credit card data may have been
compromised. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
Mozilla has joined Apple in being among the first to fix the DLL load hijacking attack vector that continues to haunt hundreds of Windows applications.
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